[dillywho]

Bottom line is, patients not going home take precedence. You have probably been there at least one day, possibly more, so what is a few more hours?

As for the physician not showing up until after he had seen all his office patients, would you be a happy patient in his office if he didn't? People here already scream loud enough at the doctors office about taking too long to be seen. Medicine is not fast food nor should it be handled as such. Every patient is important to the doctors, nurses, ER, first responders, etc. Otherwise, none of them would be in the business of putting up with the abuses they endure on an almost daily basis. They know you don't feel well and would most certainly prefer to be elsewhere and cut you some slack. How about doing the same for them? Until the day comes that all phases of medicine can be one on one, then we just have to live within what we have. I certainly cannot fathom ever having that day, but who knows. People once thought of travel to the moon and back impossible.